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As always, over-hyped sensationalism will overcome any actual facts...
...About the only revelant, factual bit of that story is that 'Hey, Hey..." was indeed a long running variety show...
...it came back for 2 'reunion' shows, in which all of the original cast, and a lot of original acts** [important to note here!].
So...20 years ago on a segment called 'Red Faces' (which is a quasi-"talent" show...ie. people intentionally make idiots of themselves for a laugh), 5 medical students did a skit on the Jackson 5.
Imagine 5 guys who can't dance, trying their best to awkwardly do some tight choreography [ie. Jackson 5 moves]...anyway, it was funny.
So, back for the reunion show.
[It's worth noting here that all 5 are now registered doctors of various kinds, so clearly intelligent guys...also worth noting that 3 of them are from "ethnic" backgrounds. (India I believe.)]
They come back, dressed in
the same gear as 20 years ago...perform (even more awkwardly now @ age 40ish as you'd imagione!)
the same choreography and skit...
...GET IT WORLD? :00hour
SO...we have, 5 guys...not all 'white' for a start...making fun of absolutely no-one but themselves, making world "news" for doing a sing and dance to a Jackson 5 song.
[Also worth a bit of a note here that
TANALEE SMITH, Associated Press Writer is more of an idiot than most of the press, given Adelaide is nowhere near where it happened! :shrug: )
There are a few die-hard Connick Jr. fans who are apparently appalled by it all...obviously, a couple of try-hard politicians desperate for some face-time [oh, a pun! :142smilie ] find it "disgusting"...
...but judging by the amount of people who have trawled youtube finding videos of Connick performing a skit pretending to be a black preacher...
...or Leno getting laughs at the expense of a woman for simply being Asian and having a funny sounding name...
...wait a minute, Whoopi Goldberg is offended beyond believe about 3 days after defending Roman Polanski for having (ahem) consentual sex with a 13 yo :scared ...
...yeah, Harry...we all know where you come from, and we all appreciate your frustration over the ongoing NO/Katrina issues...[you do realise that 'responsibilty' lies with the
American Government right?!]...
...and because
you were the only one who added 1 and 1 and came up with equating "black people" to "buffoons"!!!...
...for your crazy hissy fit, over something that even now, with all the convolutions, is impossible to be linked with any underlaying derogatory racial attitudes, from the Australian public, you recieve...
